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IMAGE CAPTURE
AND QUALITY ISSUES
Get the Big Picture
on Quality.
A few handy imaging and image
quality terms.
Contrast—the difference between
light and dark in an image
Detail—the ability to discern small
features in an image
Curve optimization—how smoothly
rounded characters are displayed
Edge definition—the difference
between data and background
Illumination—evenness lighting from
side to side without bleed through
Resolution—how many dots per inch
the image sensor detects
Bitonal—black and white imaging
Grayscale—16 to 256 steps between
black and white
Color—multiple values of red, green,
and blue
Artifacts—“noise” or stray dots
appearing in a scanned image that
weren’t in the original
How to select the right scanner for a smooth-running
document imaging system.
Get your document imaging applications off to a great start.
When you convert paper documents into digital images, you’re able to manage
them with a point and a click. Most customers experience cost savings and
productivity increases. Increased efficiency can also give you competitive
advantages in customer service. But first you have to capture the images with
a scanner, your on-ramp to document imaging. You want traffic to flow through
your capture process quickly and without incident.
Your imaging chain is as strong as the quality of its links.
There’s more to it than just running paper through a scanner. Image capture
is about making images as legible as possible for humans as well as
data extraction software. There are many factors involved. Let’s begin with the
basics. Image capture steps typically include:
• Document preparation—removing staples, sorting by type or condition
if necessary
• Document transport—feeding originals, moving them past the camera
(see below), and stacking them when done
• Imaging—performed by a camera consisting of a light source, optics,
a sensor, and electronics
• Image processing—adjusting exposure, removing skew, removing borders,
image compression
• Quality assurance—checking to make sure scanning and processing are correct
• Indexing—creating a database of the imaged documents so they can be
retrieved later
Image quality variables are generally centered on scanning and image
processing. However, anything you can do to improve performance at any one
of the steps noted here can help make your overall business process more
efficient. As you weigh your scanner options, it’s important to look at how the
many combinations of features, speed, and cost impact the process and its
output, including reliability and your total cost of operation.
 Quality—its beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Evaluating image quality takes equal parts subjective and objective
judgment. Remember, the goal of document imaging is to capture and
share information visually.
A quick search on imaging standards posted on the web by U.S. and foreign
government agencies and educational institutions tells the tale. Consider
this from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore: ”All information
contained in the document (be it graphical, textual, handwritten, or otherwise)
must be capable of being captured in its entirety and with a level of accuracy
that ensures that no information that can reasonably be expected to form
part of any subsequent business process is lost or altered in any way.”
To put it another way, what you get is what you see. The image on the
computer screen contains all of the relevant information that appears on the
original document. No more, no less.
Putting the scanner to the test.
Some imaging qualities can be measured. Engineers can evaluate a scanning
system’s ability to image areas of a standard test target without distortion or
loss of detail. Straight lines should remain straight—left to right and up and
down. Areas of fine detail should not fill in. Optical character recognition (OCR)
performance is another measure. If errors rates are high, it’s a sign that the
imaging process is deficient.
You be the judge.
Any scanner design incorporates decisions made by engineers about optical
performance and how the raw digital stream of ones and zeros is converted
into an image. Because only you can decide if these choices are right for your
application, the best way to evaluate a specific scanner is to test it with
your documents. Set the capture parameters according to the vendor’s
recommendations for your application. These might be different, depending on
whether your mix includes photographs, multipart flimsies, bar codes, handwritten
notations, diagrams, color content, or consists mainly of printed forms.
Virtually every scanner is able to scan at multiple resolutions, which are
measured in dots per inch (dpi). The higher the number, the more data
transferred from the page. But higher resolution generally means a slower scan
rate and larger image files for a given page. You want to achieve the highest
speed for the lowest resolution that sufficiently captures the information that’s
important to you.

The inside story on image capture.

Scanner Image Capture Software

Imaging Imaging Image
Transport Illumination Optics Array Processing Management

Deskew
Border Removal
Exposure Correction
Image Enhancement
Plan for a productive process.
When it comes to operational goals for an image capture system, you want
the system to do as much of the work as possible. Most particularly, you want
to avoid the need to rescan documents and reinsert them into an image
workflow. If we look at different aspects of the imaging chain, it’s easy to see
what matters.
Minimize paper handling.
The right choice will allow you to spend your time on tasks that are more
worthwhile than sorting paper. Here are some capabilities to watch for:
• A scanner that feeds mixed document types and sizes means you’ll spend
less time presorting.
• A duplex scanner will capture the fronts and backs of documents in a
single pass.
• Technology that examines images and auto rotates them to the correct
orientation saves on sorting or post-scan editing.
• A scanner that prevents and/or detects overlapping documents saves you
the nuisance of removing and rescanning individual documents.
• By detecting photographic content within the batch and on individual
documents, a capture system can handle a mix of text and images in a
single scan.
• If the scanner delivers documents face down in original order in the output Find the right balance of features
tray, it’s easier to prepare them for archiving. to minimize your total cost
Maximize image quality automatically. of ownership.
An image capture system that adjusts exposure (also known as thresholding) No discussion of quality would
and performs image processing helps your process in several ways. be complete without a word or
• By handling “exception” images automatically, the capture system can two about cost. There’s more to it
further limit the need for time-consuming manual rescans. than the purchase price of a scanner
• By setting its white balance automatically, a scanner can minimize variations and imaging software. Be certain
among images. you take into account the ongoing
• Color management and color balancing technology help assure consistent expense of labor, consumables
imaging among scanners and between batches. such as lamps and feeder modules,
service, and software upgrades.
• Consistent imaging performance reduces the need to check every image in
Look at any scanner’s design in
your quality assurance step.
terms of durability and ergonomics.
• By straightening images (deskew), autocropping images, and deleting blank A good guarantee and a strong
pages, the system can virtually eliminate the need for manual image editing. service contract can be a worthwhile
• Background color smoothing produces cleaner-looking, sharper images. investment.
Optimize operator involvement.
By limiting paper handling and automating image processes, your scanning
system can minimize the time and labor required to get images into your
system. Here are some other points to consider:
• An easy-to-operate image capture system will reduce the need for
specialized training or dedicated operators.
• A capture system that can detect color pages within a batch can select the
imaging mode that best suits the document.
• Depending on your application, you may want the capture system to time-
and date-stamp documents, perform indexing by bar codes or OCR fields, or
perform automatic data entry via OCR. ”Trainable“ electronic color dropout
capabilities handle more colors and variations in colors.
• Simplified routine scanner cleaning and maintenance will enable an operator
to safeguard system performance.